Femmes aux yeux ouverts [videorecording] = Women with open eyes / un film de Anne Laure Folly ; produit par Amanou Production.

Other Title:

Women with open eyes [videorecording]

Publication:

San Francisco : California Newsreel, 1994.

Series:

Library of African cinema (Videodisc)
Library of African cinema

Format/Description:

Video
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects:

Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions.
Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions.
Female circumcision.
Marriage customs and rites -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
AIDS (Disease) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women -- Diseases -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women -- Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Feminism -- Africa, West.
Sexually transmitted diseases -- Africa, West.
Clitoridectomy -- Africa, West.
Women -- Burkina Faso.
Women -- Mali.
Women -- Senegal.
Women -- Benin.
Infibulation -- Africa, West.
Businesswomen -- Africa, West.
Africa, West -- Social conditions.

Form/Genre:

Documentary films.

Language:

In French with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

Summary:

Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy.

Participant:

Narrators, Djelika Diallo, Alimaia Konate.

Credits:

Montage, Sylvia Allombert ; image, Jean-Louis Penez, Pap Seck, Racine Arouna Keita ; son, Richard Verthe, Abdou Diouf, Moussa Diallo ; musique, Ali Wade, Philippe Papin, Gabriella, Le choeurs de Kombissiri.

Notes:

Originally produced in Togo in 1993.

Contributor:

Folly, Anne-Laure. , Director
Diallo, Djelika. , Narrator
Konate, Alimaia. , Narrator
Wade, Ali. , Composer
Amanou production (Firm) , Producer
California Newsreel (Firm) , Distributor

OCLC:

173182014

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